Recruitment and selection within health and social care or children and young people’s settings
Click to watch ‘Disclosure and Barring Service: The Update Service from an applicant's perspective’ produced by the UK Home Office.
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- Laser Learning reading text ‘Employing staff for the first time’
- ‘Recruitment: hiring someone’ by ACAS
- ‘Contract types and employer responsibilities’ webpage on the Gov UK website
- ‘Equality Act 2010: Summary Guidance on Employment’ by the Equality and Human Rights Commission
- 'How to Prepare For an Interview' on the Prospects website
- ‘An employer’s guide to right to work checks’ by the UK Home Office
- ‘Pre-employment checks: An employer’s guide’ by CIPD
- ‘Keeping children safe in education: Statutory guidance for schools and colleges’ by Gov UK
- Presentation
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- ‘Flexible working and work-life balance’ by ACAS. Click on the icon to the left to read about the different types of flexible working. You may wish to offer flexible working to new members of staff, or you may be asked during the recruitment process whether you would consider it.
- ‘Holidays and holiday pay’ by ACAS. Click on the icon to the left to read the section on ‘Holiday entitlement’ pages 2-3. When posting job adverts, it is good practice to state holiday entitlement.
- ‘National Minimum Wage entitlement' on the ACAS website. Click on the icon to the left to read this guidance on minimum wage and living wage.
- Click to learn more about ‘PAYE and payroll for employers’ on the Gov UK website.
- Click to access a number of useful recruitment and hiring guides on the Gov UK website.
- Click to read ‘Safer recruitment in early years’ on the Early Years Careers website.
- Think And Challenge
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